Technology & Innovation

Analysis of whether smart thermostats actually reduce energy costs compared to manual systems, examining the gap between theoretical savings and real-world user behavior.

Despite an official ceasefire, the US and Iran are engaged in a high-stakes shadow war involving MQ-1 drones, IRGC retaliations, and strategic naval blockades in the Strait of Hormuz.

From AI productivity tools to streaming bundles and fitness trackers, we analyze why the subscription economy is hitting a ceiling and how to prune your digital spend.

Blackview launches the Mega 5, a 12.2-inch productivity-focused tablet featuring 12GB RAM, Unisoc T7300, and an expansive accessory bundle for under $220.

A catastrophic static-fire failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral creates a critical launch bottleneck for NASA, Amazon, and AST SpaceMobile.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) allows spaceports to access the municipal bond market, shifting space infrastructure from venture-style funding to long-term institutional capital.

Colombia heads to a June runoff election between right-wing outsider Abelardo de la Espriella and leftist senator Iván Cepeda, signaling a potential pivot in US-Colombia relations.

French navy, with UK support, intercepts the sanctioned oil tanker Tagor in the Atlantic, targeting Russia's 'shadow fleet' and sanctions evasion tactics.

Meta is diversifying revenue with app-specific 'Plus' subscriptions and the new 'Meta One' ecosystem for AI and professional creators.

Microsoft debuts the Surface Laptop Ultra at Computex 2026, featuring the NVIDIA RTX Spark platform and Grace CPU to challenge Apple's M-series dominance.

From Pope Leo XIV's warnings on human dignity to efforts by fundamentalist groups to force religious data into LLMs, the intersection of AI and faith is becoming a political battlefield.

The Trump administration's plan to weaken coal ash monitoring and groundwater protections faces fierce opposition from environmental lawyers and neurobiological researchers.

Looking back at the 1986 film SpaceCamp, we examine how the Challenger disaster transformed a hopeful vision of the future into a cinematic misfire.

Investigation reveals a surge in AI-generated personas on TikTok and Instagram using marginalized identities to sell mass-produced fast fashion as 'handmade' goods.

Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, featuring the Nvidia RTX Spark superchip. A bold return to Arm-based Windows hardware with high-end AI compute.

Nvidia enters the consumer CPU market with the RTX Spark, an Arm-based SoC designed to bring local AI agents and high-end graphics to thin-and-light laptops.

Intel's upcoming Diamond Rapids Xeon pushes core counts to 192 but retires SMT. Explore the shift to chiplet architecture and the 18A process.

Tejas Chopra, a senior engineer at Netflix, has released Project Headroom, an open-source proxy designed to compress redundant AI tokens and reduce LLM API bills.

Environmental advocate Erin Brockovich is challenging the opacity of AI data center construction and its impact on local communities through a new crowdsourced mapping project.

As the pressure to constantly ship features grows, a growing segment of the programming community is reclaiming 'do nothing' weeks to combat burnout.